Posted on 05/23/2022 11:01:14 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Berlin airlift was supplying one city. It had planes landing every 30 seconds to a minute.
A few transatlantic cargo planes carrying baby formula for a continent in short supply is a PR propaganda stunt. They show clips on CNN and all the people think something is being done.
It’s DC flipping America the finger.
Why aren’t the chest feeders helping out?
That’s the way I feel...but we are suffering for this idiot’s decisions as well. I thought if things got bad enough people would finally wake up——but the worse things get the more they plead with government to “resolve the problem they created”. Lunacy-—stupidity.
I had hope for Americans..... But over 1/2 are completely sold on government resolving all problems——yes, even my “Republican” friends think like this as well.
Flying in from Europe 2 semis worth of formula will really help the nationwide shortage... The most expensive baby formula ever.
Mika pinning it to Biden. She REALLY wants Kamalla in.
How embarrassing for our once great nation. Its like the Berlin Air-lift in reverse.
What Walmart sells in a day in New York.
Its the SOY. That’s why they don’t want the overseas stuff imported. They are pushing the SOY on babies.
The crazy broad is finally right. This amount is something to be embarrassed about, not boasted about.
The USDA says it’s enough to feed 9,000 babies and 18,000 toddlers for one week. So, are they bragging about this? Because that’s not something to brag about. That’s bad news.”
“[T]hat is not enough,” she added. “That is not even close. We know that this plant was shut down, the one plant that really is the monopoly here in the United States, three months ago. And we’ve got enough for a week for 27,000 children, babies.”
There must have been only one domestic privately owned supplier since the FDA was able to shut it down.
Seems to me that a monopoly, whether corporate or government is a really bad idea.
That’s less than a tractor-trailer load.
Ugh!! Stop it! Stop it!
The White Hut is delivering NOTHING!!!
What a eff’ing scam of food ticket mafia handlers.
Let people produce and drill and live, GTfO government.
Typical ploy. Create a problem, the people demand a solution, the government swoops in and acts like the hero. It’s all theater.
It’s an 18 hour supply for the nation. Sounds like a lot, but it isn’t.
That’s one truckload.
| Item | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Population under age 5 | 23,000,000 | |
| Fraction of babies under age 1 | 25% | |
| Population under age 1 | 5,750,000 | |
| Fraction of babies on formula | 75% | |
| Population needing formula | 4,310,000 | |
| Low | High | |
| Formula required per baby (fluid ounces / day) | 24 | 32 |
| Formula required in USA (fluid ounces / day) | 103,440,000 | 137,920,000 |
| Formula density (pounds / gallon) | 8.86 | 8.86 |
| Formula required in USA per day (tons / day) | 46 | 61 |
140,000 8 ounce cans. Two trucks tops.
By air no less.
Why not just have done things right the first time and not have this stupid mess?
As if the inhabitants of Indiana are some third world population that need the largess of colonialist military forces to survive.
The markets should be allowed to solve these problems.
2..
18 wheelers can weigh 80k but they do have a empty weight or roughly 30k
Leaving 50k or so of capacity
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